Food insecurity is major public health issues related to nutrition. Addition of health associated with socialeconomic damaging status. This study aimed to determine Prevalence of Food insecurity in Iranian Women: A Study in Zahedan (Southwest of Iran). In this cross sectional study has been done on 1250 women at 15 to 50 in 2014 in Zahedan were examined by multistage sampling. Data collect by questionnaires Food security was measured at the household level. A locally-adapted HFIAS developed by USAID's Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA) project was used in measuring food security in each household. Data analyzed by descriptive statistics and chi-square tests in Spss 16 software. The mean age of studying women were 28.19 6.71. Based on the results, 7/63% of the subjects in terms of food security was safe, 17.8% experienced food insecurity without hunger, and 12.1% reported food insecure with moderate hunger with and 4.6% of subjects experienced Food insecure with severe hunger. According to increasing food insecurity especially women and its influences in health, psychological, social and economic status in society, planning through measures to improve the economic situation and household dietary patterns of household is necessary.
